Good Question.
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration reported this summer that 1.1 million coronavirus aid checks were sent to people who had already died. The checks totaled nearly $1.4 billion.
After the report, the watchdog recommended that Congress “provide Treasury with access to the Social Security Administration’s full set of death records, and require that Treasury consistently use it, to help reduce similar types of improper payments.”
Rep. Thomas Massie seemed to echo Paul, questioning the integrity of voting via mail when most “of what shows up in your mailbox is junk mail.”
“75% of what shows up in your mailbox is junk mail… and some people thought this would be a good venue for holding a presidential election?” he tweeted Monday.
Were these checks cashed?
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The “checks” were money transfers, deposited into active checking accounts. There were no “checks” to cash.
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Not all of them. I don’t know he numbers but I know that paper checks actually went out and I would suspect there was a higher average in this group than the living population since there may nit have been active bank accounts.
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Rand Paul said “Checks”, so it must have gone somewhere. Why would dead people have accounts?
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lol Good question! But they do. Have accounts, that is.
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Well, gee wiz. The checks went out what, some 6 months ago, and this question is only now asked?
Why was this question not posed and rectified before approval of the stimulus checks?
Not to mention, why are all gubmint agencies not using the same database of active and deceased citizens?
The answer is well-known, but those that know, or even care to know, don’t seem to be the ones we elect, and certainly are not the bureaucrats who service those elected.
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The ‘database of the dead’ belongs to the Social Security Agency, funeral homers are required to report the death but you can report it on your own. It takes SSA a while to put the deceased into their records but once it’s in there…well, nothing much happens.
The SSA sells its database, a few genealogy sites have it and you can use it if you buy onto the site, but when I worked the game we’d find a lot of the deads’ SSNs actively being used, being used for quite some time, so the SSA appears not to be even checking their own active database against the dead files. We had a SSA rep at the joint intel group I was with post-911 and it was like pulling teeth to get him to tell us where some illegal who was using a phony SSN we were tracking was working. Nothing more, just working. We found a center in NJ and NY that had dozens of Mideastern illegals getting stolen SSNs from some Southern states, the folks getting the illegals the stolen SSNs and associated personal information can get that data easier than we doing LEA work could.
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